Top 52 Scars And Wounds Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Scars And Wounds

#1. What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.

#2. Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.

Eugene O'Neill

#3. Wounds heal and become scars, but scars grow with us.

Joseph Stanislaw

#4. We've been through a lot, and though many of the wounds have healed, the scars they've left behind still throb every now and then.

Neha Yazmin

#5. Sometimes, Chase ... it's the emotional wounds that hurt the most." I pushed back the anger and sighed. "I'd rather he beat me. Cuts heal, bruises fade - but broken hearts? They carry scars for a lifetime.

Rachel Van Dyken

#6. It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.

Aisha Mirza

#7. They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.

Peter David

#8. Time doesn't heal the wounds; it masks them. It takes them and makes them something else. Some scars always remain. Some wounds always remain open and exposed.

Joann Buchanan

#9. The defects of the mind are
like the wounds of the body. Whatever care we take to heal them the scars ever remain, and there is always danger of their reopening.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#10. He'd almost died and seeing the proof of his knife wounds, hearing him describe the incident that had almost taken his life, rattled her so much.
With him still holding her wrist, she bent awkwardly and pressed her lips against the worst of his scars.

Virna DePaul

#11. You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.

Jane Fonda

#12. He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.

David Finkel

#13. Once your heart has been broken, it's never really heals. The wounds may heal, but the scars remain there forever. That delicate tissue must be guarded and protected at all cost.

K. Langston

#14. Count your salted wounds then name them
like the stars of a bright constellation
Count your scars and bruises then give them
the wings of forgiveness to fly

Malak El Halabi

#15. His wounds now bear scars, and those scars dull all feeling. You may see that as a flaw, but I assure you, just as the body will protect what was damaged, so too will the soul.

Steven Erikson

#16. A lot of my wounds have healed. They have left scars, and I can either hide my scars, put a long sleeve shirt on, and cover them up. Or, I can show them off and say, "Yeah, it happened."

LeCrae

#17. Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

Markus Zusak

#18. You are a ghost. Filled with stardust, wearing the bones as the shield and the skin as the cape. Fighting every day and opening up for the new wounds in the hustle of hiding the old scars.

Akshay Vasu

#19. Time heals all wounds. Il tempo guarisce tutti i mali. It's been said time and time again, but what they don't talk about are the jagged scars left behind. What they don't tell you is that sometimes, when ignored, the wounds fester

J.M. Darhower

#20. He bears wounds only seen with the heart and the scars that have formed over the years still pain him.

Regan Walker

#21. My arrival
Her womb's delight
Her existence
My living light
Her wounds
My scars
Her skies
My stars
Her days
My hours
Her strength
My powers
I breathe my name
Being her child
Without mother
Life's beguiled
From the poem 'Mother

Munia Khan

#22. Time heals the wounds of the past,
Apology, forgiveness, and acceptance
does lighten the scars.

Rhoendyl RCruz

#23. Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have wounds
and scars of their own. They may even be envying us.

Harold S. Kushner

#24. I want some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don't disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.

Veronica Roth

#25. Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Wallace Stegner

#26. Ye living soldiers of the mighty war,
Once more from roaring cannon and the drums
And bugles blown at morn, the summons comes;
Forget the halting limb, each wound and scar:
Once more your Captain calls to you;
Come to his last review!

Richard Watson Gilder

#27. The wounds were hard to heal, and once they did heal, they left behind the ugly reminder of the scars, those little cracks where fear enjoyed building its den.

Irina Serban

#28. It's because those events never really become wounds or scars on the surface, but parts of you deep down inside," he said, answering his own question. "You can't see them with the naked eye, but they nevertheless shape the way you move and everything you say and do - until the day you die.

Erik Valeur

#29. A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.

Adrian Rogers

#30. When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Rabindranath Tagore

#31. Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#32. You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys.

Jenim Dibie

#33. I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

Demi Lovato

#34. Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

Bell Hooks

#35. The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as
obvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man's emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.

Lundy Bancroft

#36. The wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...

John Geddes

#37. Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.'
'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

Regina Doman

#38. The words wounded deeper than the bruises and the scars from any physical pain he inflicted on me. At least those wounds healed.

Serena Valentino

#39. It's easier to forget the past if nothing ever reminds you of those leathery old scars that can never again feel any loss or pain; the old wounds must be kept open if you are going to remember their cause and regret their occurrence.

Peter Robinson

#40. From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."

Craig Scott

#41. While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee.

Douglas Brinkley

#42. Both men were pictures of the kind of grief that cauterizes open wounds in memory and turns them into black scars.

B.V. Lawson

#43. It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn't, and we weren't.

Scott Heim

#44. One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#45. In time, the pain from a phisical beating would recede, heal, and scar, but wounds inflicted to the heart left scars that never stopped hurting

Lorraine Heath

#46. Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

John Warner

#47. The scar will always be there. It will always be a part of me, but it's not who I am. Wounds can heal with time, Persephone. And those scars are only a small part of who you can be.

Layla Harding